Re: Changing source file for linked photos

I can't help with making the imported pictures 'grow'. Have a look at the
picture properties and see what scaling is involved. It may be possible to
set the scale for the pictures - but if they are of different resolutions I
can foresee more problems.

Personally I would use table cells to place the images, but then you
wouldn't have been able to update them separately in quite the same manner.

It sounds as though Wordpipe is not going to achieve anything we haven't
already managed the rough and ready way.

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Paul Bateman wrote:
> Graham,
>
> Almost there, but not quite. Fixing the fields with CTRL+SHIFT+F9
> did the trick, followed by Plan A. Getting rid of the data fields
> was actually a welcome side benefit. One "small" glitch, after
> running the UpdateAll macro some of the pictures are much smaller
> than the text boxes that they originally filled. Is there a way to
> force them to fill the text boxes or do I have to manually adjust
> them? Here's a clue, not all of the photos are from the same device
> - the problem ones are from a higher resolution camera.
>
> I will agree with you about the text boxes, they have given me much
> grief, but I didn't know how else to position and size photos on a
> page. I have a number of text templates that I insert as files to a
> page, then insert jpegs in them.
>
> Our network specialist called yesterday with a software product
> (WordPipe) that supposedly could change all the source paths in all
> my Word files in one shot. One problem, you still have to open the
> document in Word to update the fields....
>
> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>
>> Hmmmm. I hate text boxes, but they may come to your aid here as the
>> update is clearly not seeing them (being in the drawing layer of the
>> document). What you could try is to select the document (CTRL+A)
>> then fix the field result (CTRL+SHIFT+F9). This should not affect
>> the text boxes. You can then revert to plan A to change the code for
>> the graphics, then grab the macro code from my web site
>> http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm to update all the fields
>> in the document.
>>
>> No guarantees as I don't have your document to play with, but it
>> sounds good and worked in my test documents. The data fields in the
>> document will no longer be fields however.
>>
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>>
>> Paul Bateman wrote:
>>> Graham,
>>>
>>> I will have to admit that when I saw the "Easy?" in your reply I
>>> cringed.
>>>
>>> The Text Form fields that were "wiped clean" were originally filled
>>> in from 3rd party software that ran on MS Access. The user fills in
>>> a questioneer and a Word document is created using some of this
>>> information. After following your procedure, the fields are there,
>>> but empty.
>>>
>>> I failed to mention that the pictures are inserted into Text Boxes.
>>>
>>> The "Select All" command does not appear to select the pictures,
>>> perhaps that's why they are not updating. Is there a way to only
>>> select the pictures, then update?
>>>
>>> I was hoping for an "elegant" solution, but am afraid I may have to
>>> resort to "brute force" unless you can think of a way around these
>>> obstacles.
>>>
>>> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hmmmm. This is going to be a problem hence the question mark after
>>>> 'Easy' in my original reply. I could give you code that would
>>>> update the fields (switching to print preview and back should be
>>>> enough) but what are the other fields that are 'wiped' and what do
>>>> you mean by 'wiped' in this context? Updating should do simply
>>>> that - show the latest information. Selectively turning those
>>>> fields to text may be a problem.
>>>>
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>>>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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>>>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>>>>
>>>> Paul Bateman wrote:
>>>>> Graham,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the quick response. Your reply answered some of the
>>>>> question, but presented new ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> My documents contain other form fields that were wiped clean when
>>>>> I updated all the fields - is there a way to be more selective in
>>>>> what gets updated? Some reports have over 40 photos so I'd rather
>>>>> not have to update them individually.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition, the pictures were not visible after the update even
>>>>> though the source files were correctly changed - Picture Place
>>>>> holders is unchecked, Drawings is clicked, and I'm in Print Layout
>>>>> view. If I update them individually, it works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of our computer department specialists wrote a script to
>>>>> change the source path in the files, but it wound up corrupting
>>>>> the Word document. Scripts are over my head, but if you have any
>>>>> suggestions I can pass it on.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Easy? If the pictures are linked then toggle the field codes
>>>>>> (ALT+F9) which will produce something like:
>>>>>> { INCLUDEPICTURE "D:\\My Documents\\My Pictures\\Filename.jpg" \*
>>>>>> MERGEFORMAT \d }
>>>>>> While toggled, you can use the replace function to change the
>>>>>> path. Toggle back then CTRL+A followed by F9 to update all the
>>>>>> fields.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul Bateman wrote:
>>>>>>> Our computer department moved our digital photos from one server
>>>>>>> to another. I have numerous WORD 2002 files with photos linked
>>>>>>> to the old server. Is there an easy way to change all the
>>>>>>> links in a WORD 2002 file so the photos are visible again?


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